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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Cyanide is a band from Delhi, formed in 2001, and have been working the rock circuit all over India and are currently hot, having released their first EP!! Yea, this is the one and you can catch all of it here. Anyways there are only 5 songs on here, all originals, with lyrics I am … Continue reading →

Aha. The album that really introduced Porcupine Tree as a force to be reckoned with, a “band” and not just a joke, somewhat similar in nature to Spinal Tap, the only difference being that Steven Wilson was making fun of 70’s prog bands. It is the first time Porcupine Tree is used to denote an … Continue reading →

Perhaps Stupid Dream is one of the most melancholy and somber albums that PT has ever made till date. Yes, the mood that this band conjures up is always so, but on this even it is even more so. Maybe that is why this one has always ranked a little lower on my scale than … Continue reading →

“Hey man, redneck is cool!! Lets take up Southern Blues we were good at in the 70’s and take it rip roaring into the90’s!! Yo yo yo!!” And that is what Allman Brothers did, i.e Greg Allman and Dickey Betts with a couple of other guys. They came back from the dead to produce one … Continue reading →

Their least “progressive” record, so to speak, if we speak in context of stereotypical notions of what is progressive since there are no lengthy, multi-part instrumental jams ala The Sky Moves Sideways, except for one (“Russia on Ice”, but then they have to maintain that proggy image with the marks, eh?), instead for the most … Continue reading →

Donavon Frankenreiter. Who? Donavon Frankenreiter. Nope. I hadn’t heard of him either. But thank god for the miracle that is YouTube; I managed to find this guy and his actually pretty good music. All you need to know to get where he is coming from is that he is a guitar playing surfer. So how … Continue reading →